Tag Archives: Maui

HONOLULU — Officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui have lifted evacuation orders for residents living near a wildfire that broke out late Tuesday. Police went door-to-door evacuating residents and emergency sirens sounded before firefighters stopped the blaze’s forward progress. Emergency shelters were also closing late Tuesday as residents returned home. The fire, which grew to about 300 acres (40 …

The PGA Tour announced today it is not holding The Sentry at the Plantation Course at Kapalua — the home of the tour’s prestigious season-opening event for the past 27 years — due to the water-starved condition of the course. “Following discussions with the Governor’s office, as well as leadership from Sentry Insurance, Kapalua Resort and Maui County, the PGA …

The advisory committee makes recommendations to the CDC on what vaccines the American public should take each year. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday named a Maui children’s physician who used unapproved drugs to treat Covid to serve on a powerful federal advisory panel on vaccine policy. Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist and pastor at Calvary Chapel …

In August 2023, downed power lines on Maui, Hawaii, sparked a wildfire that quickly exploded into multiple, fast-moving blazes fanned by high winds. Over several days, the fires reduced much of the town of Lāhainā to ashes, displacing thousands and killing more than 100 people. New research published Thursday, August 22, in the journal Frontiers in Climate suggests this disaster …